are to be seen in the town and county, and much of the fine stock in Central Iowa at the present day are descendants of animals introduced by him. He aroused many young minds to a sense of their capacity for usefulness and honor during his work as a pedagogue. Iowa is a monument to the pioneer law-makers, of whom he is one, and he who has done these things can scarcely be said to have lived in vain. He is five feet eleven inches in height, weighs 200 pounds, fair and florid in complexion, sanguine, impulsive and frank even to the verge of bluntness, despises cant, hypocrisy and meanness, is impatient with stupidity, loves his old friends, but would rather punish than conciliate his enemies. Though these qualities are not such as make one successful in politics Col. Scott has been for more than thirty years the leading figure in Story County, and one among the representative citizens of the State.
Andrew Scott, farmer and stock-raiser, Ames, Iowa. Prominent among the substantial men of the county, whose career thus far has been both honorable and successful, is the subject of this sketch. His father, John Scott, was born in Washington County, Penn., in 1803, and his mother, whose maiden name was Miss Mary Freed, was a native of Ohio. Andrew Scott was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1832, one of nineteen children, the result of his father's first and second marriages. Only the following are now living: Eliza, Robert, George, Jason, Albert, Sarah and Hannah. Andrew Scott grew to manhood in the State of his nativity, obtained a good common-school education, and came to Scott County, Iowa, in 1854. In the spring of the following year he came to Story County, located a claim and soon returned to Scott County, where he resided until 1857. He then returned to Story County, and has made this county his home ever since. He was married in the fall of 1859 to Miss Zilphia A. Grove, a daughter of Adam L. and Rachel (Antrum) Grove. To Mr. and Mrs. Scott were born eight children, six of whom are still living: Amanda E., Mary J., John M., William A., Rachel, Josiah D., Frank F. and Carrie M. Mrs. Scott died in the spring of 1873, and in 1880 Mr. Scott chose for his second wife Miss Ida J. Goldsmith, a native of Illinois, and the daughter of George and Mary J. (Green) Goldsmith, who are now residing at Ames in Story County. Mr. Scott learned the carpenter trade in Ohio and followed this for some time after coming to Story County. He is now the owner of 160 acres of the finest land in the county, and is a man of industry and enterprise. His farming operations are conducted in a manner indicative of a progressive, thorough agriculturist; his stock is of a high grade, for long ago he found that it was poor economy to raise inferior animals. Energetic and public-spirited, he never fails to aid any movement which tends to benefit the county or his fellow-men. Politically he has at all times been a member of the Democratic party. Mr. Scott and all his family are members of the Christian Church in the township where he resides.
J. B. Shaw, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, residing on Section 30, Sherman Township, located on his farm in the fall of 1876. Originally from Clermont County, Ohio, he is the sixth of nine children born to the marriage of Daniel and Sarah (Tice) Shaw, and his birth occurred in 1833. His father, a native of New Jersey, was born about 1793, and served in the War of 1812 under Zachary Taylor. He was a farmer by occupation, and followed agricultural pursuits all his life, dying in Ohio in 1847, and leaving a widow who survived him one year. They reared all of their children to maturity, but only four of them are now living: A. B. (is connected with a newspaper in North Springfield, Mo.), J. B., Sarah (now Mrs.